Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World was one of the most memorable books I read in my early teens. The brilliance of that book came from Gaarder's ability to make complicated concepts easier for young ...

Neurologically, the flexibility of the future promised by liberal democracy can be a challenge because it brings with it uncertainty. But there are solutions, say Florence Gaub and Liya Yu ...

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron described problems of the modern understanding of freedom as a "society of little tyrants" last week in an interview with Patrick Deneen, professor of political science ...

Gianna Englert, an associate professor of humanities at the University of Florida, visited Brown on Thursday to discuss her book investigating the tensions between liberal and democratic ideologies in ...

Starting from Immanuel Wallerstein's argument that that twentieth-century and contemporary disciplinary formations are part of the cultural system of centrist liberalism, which emerged in nineteenth ...